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conditions may have been ee! repeated. Certainly the 
most noticeable feature of the tree is the unusual number of vig- 
orous new shoots. Several pe trees in the Gardens show this 
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of the wood will be made in the fall for the purpose of observing 
if there is any indication of a second renewal of growth in the 
annual zone of this year’s wood. C. C. Curtis. 
THE an are CONFERENCE ON PLANT 
EEDING AND HYBRIDIZATION. 
As already noted in this JouRNAL, - Horticultural Society of 
ew York, at its June yous held at the Garden, took pre- 
liminary steps to arrange for aa et conference on Plant 
reeding and Hybridisation, to be held here in 
02. The Council of the Society has so far advanced the plans 
fe this important conference as to be able to present the follow- 
ue partial programme: 
. Results of ne cabanas and Plant Breeding in Canada 
atte by specimens). Wm. Saunders, Director of the 
ee Farm, Ottawa, Canada. 
. Notes on Plan eding in California. E. J. Wickson, 
Hoviculunse eee a Experiment Setion, University of 
California. 
3. Plant SF in New Jersey (illustrated by specimens). 
. D. Halsted, Professor of Botany in Rutgers College, New 
Prue: WN. 
4. tid Phaniss . A, Waugh, Horticulturist, Vermont 
Agricultural oe Station. 
5. Variations in Hybrids not Appearing in the First Generation, 
but Later. E. S. Goff, Horticulturist, Agricultural Experiment 
Station, University of Wisconsin 
6. Results in the Breeding o Species of Ricinus. E. Mead 
Wilcox, Botanist, Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station. 
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